Brooder.



PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

D. K. GROFP.

BROODBR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2a, 1906.

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BROODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed March 28, 1906. Serial No. 308,652.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID K. Green, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cerre Gorde, in the county of Piatt, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breeders and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable, others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to breeders and has for its object to provide a breeder in which the young chickens will be kept warm but still be supplied with fresh air and in which cold air from the ground or floor upenwhich the breeder rests cannot permeate to the hover floor of the device.

The invention also resides in the provision of means for preventing chickens one or two days old from leaving the hover, and in the provision ofga removable hover floor, hover pad, heating chamber, and cover casing.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through a breeder constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view with the cover removed. Fig. 3 is a detailed vertical sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a detailed view of the heating chamber of the breeder.

Referring to the drawings, the numerals 5, 6, 7 and 8, denote respectively the top, floor, sides and ends of the breeder, the top 5 being removably connected with the sides and ends by means of suitable hooks and eyes 9.

Secured at its ends to the side 7 and adjacent the upper ends thereof is a depending partition 10 upon the rear face of which adjacent its upper edge is secured a strip 11 of wood or other suitable material provided upon its upper face with a felt strip 12.

The hover casing includes a heating chamber comprising a top plate 13, a rear end wall 14 and a bottom 25, the partition 10 constituting the front end wall of the hover. The end wall 14 rests with its lower edges upon the floor 6 of the breeder between cleats l5 and the top plate 13 rests with its outer edges upon the felt strip 12, and .is held closely in contact therewith by means of winged nuts 16 engaged upon bolts 17 carried fixedly by the strip 11.

Secured to the inner face of the end wall 14 of the hover casing is a strip 18 upon which rests the rear end of the hover floor 19, the

said floor; having its opposite end sloped downwardly as at 20 and resting against a cleat 21 upon the floor of the breeder. The upper end of the sloped portion 20 is spaced away from the partition 10 and carries a strip 22 which extendsl upwardly from the said floor of the hover to prevent very young chickens from leaving the hover. At its lower end the partition 10 is provided with a horizontal strip 23 and secured upon the end wall 14 between its ends and in the same plane with the strip 23 is a second horizontal strip 24 upon which, and the strip 23 is removably supported the plate 25 which is provided upon its under side with a sheet 26 of wool cloth which hangs loosely therefrom as shown, and undenlwhich the young chickens hover, the plate 25 constituting the floor of the heating chamber as: abovei intimated and also serving as a heat distributing plate for the floor 19 arranged there below.

Disposed intermediate of the top 1.3 of the hover casing, and the plate 25, is a heat retaining receptacle 27 of sheet metal and communicating with said receptacle and extending therewithin is a pipe 28 having its outer end turned downwardly as at 29, and in position to receive heat from a lamp or small stove 30 supported upon the floor of the breeder. Leading from the receptacle 27 are pipes 31, it being understood that the pipes open exteriorly of the hover, the used heated air and also the fumes from the lamp 30, being allowed to pass from the breeder through an opening 32 in the side of the same, there being also a ventilating opening 33 in the side of the breeder and communieating with the hover just above the level of the floor of the same. It will be understood that the floor of the hover being elevated and the floor of the breeder being extended beneath the said floor, cold air from the ground cannot permeate into the hover, and it will also be seen that the entire hover may be removed and taken apart for cleaning.

Having thusdescribed the invention, what I claim is:

In a breeder, a breeder casing comprising a top, a floor, side walls, a rear end wall and a front end wall, a partition depending transversely from said top centrally thereof, a hover comprising a rear end wall spaced away from the rear end wall of said casing, a floor supported from said rear end wall, and having an inclined front portion resting upon the floor of said casing, and a heating chain-- IIO her constituting as an entirety the top of said hover and comprising a top plate supported from said rear end wall of said hover and from said partition, said top plate being spaced away from the top of said casing, a bottom plate supported from the said rear end wall of said hover and from said partition and spaced away from the floor of said hover, and a heat retaining receptacle between said top and bottom plates, said heat retaining receptacle communicating with thespace between said rear end walls of said hover and said brooder casing, a lamp in the space between said rear end walls and a pipe leading from said lamp to said heat retaining recep- 15 tacle, said brooder casing having a ventilator opening in one of the walls thereof, said hover having a ventilator opening in the rear end wall thereof.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, 20 in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID K. GROFF.

Witnesses:

EARL GRISWOLD, J. Y. QUINN. 

